Vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens; mushroom garden; forest garden; sliding greenhouse; ponds; chickens; bin, wind row, and humanure composting; restored farm house/education center and tent village; resident staff and apprentices; Tarm furnace; outdoor cob oven; soil and habitat restoration.
Apprenticeships, workshops, courses, herb walks, and monthly potlucks with guest speakers (2nd Tuesday).
Volunteers: welcome especially on Friday afternoons
Visitors: welcome
Tours: request in advance preferred
Overnights: can be arranged in advance
The Newforest Institute is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the traditional balance between people, communities, and the land. Newforest serves as a northeast hub for permaculture and maintains a teaching and demonstration facility located on 300 acres of forests, fields, and permaculture gardens in the village of Brooks in mid-coast Maine.
Resilient Roots Permaculture Farm & Education Center
1445 North RdNorth Yarmouth, Maine
www.resilientroots.blogspot.com
www.resilientroots.com
www.meetup.com/eastern-cumberland-county-permaculture
Newforest Institute
66 Monroe HighwayBrooks, Maine
Vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens; mushroom garden; forest garden; sliding greenhouse; ponds; chickens; bin, wind row, and humanure composting; restored farm house/education center and tent village; resident staff and apprentices; Tarm furnace; outdoor cob oven; soil and habitat restoration.
Apprenticeships, workshops, courses, herb walks, and monthly potlucks with guest speakers (2nd Tuesday).
Volunteers: welcome especially on Friday afternoons
Visitors: welcome
Tours: request in advance preferred
Overnights: can be arranged in advance
The Newforest Institute is an educational non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the traditional balance between people, communities, and the land. Newforest serves as a northeast hub for permaculture and maintains a teaching and demonstration facility located on 300 acres of forests, fields, and permaculture gardens in the village of Brooks in mid-coast Maine.
www.newforestinstitute.org
info@newforestinstitute.org
(207) 722-3625